Jonathan Anomaly

Bioethicist and self-described defender of "liberal eugenics," named in a 2024 Guardian/Hope Not Hate undercover investigation as an in-house academic advisor to Heliospect Genomics.

Matters to this vault as the philosophical voice behind the AI-driven embryo-selection practice this session's capture surfaced: he is the academic making the affirmative ethical case for a service — ranking IVF embryos by predicted IQ — that pronatalism's own advocates (see Rachel Lu) are publicly trying to distance the movement's vocabulary from.

References

• claim-heliospect-genomics-used-ai-polygenic-scoring-to-rank-embryos-by-iq
• claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel
• claim-independent-journalism-2025-2026-confirms-herasight-continues-iq-embryo-scoring
• claim-herasight-cogpgt-2025-reports-new-iq-prediction-figures-distinct-from-heliospect

Updates

• 2026-09-08: Now appears undisguised on Herasight's public team page (the successor brand to Heliospect Genomics), alongside a "Join us" button, and as a co-author on Herasight's 2025 CogPGT technical announcement — he did not retreat from the practice after 2024's coverage; he kept working on it publicly under the same colleagues, including CEO Michael Christensen. (claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel)
• 2026-09-08: The term "liberal eugenics" he uses to defend Heliospect is not his own coinage — it belongs to philosopher Nicholas Agar (1998/2004), and traces further back to Robert Nozick's 1974 "genetic supermarket." Anomaly is applying a 26–28-year-old academic term to a present-day company, not originating the position himself. (claim-nozick-genetic-supermarket-anticipates-agar-liberal-eugenics-anomaly-heliospect-lineage)